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LOST.- A leather Skate Bag, the finder will please leave at Leavitt and Peirce...
Professor Charles Thayer, late of the Olympian Club, will have charge of the skate room and Professor Stumche of the floor at the new institute rink...
...only word we have for voluntarily omitting recitation or chapel, has a number of synonyms. At Columbia they prefer to slope, at Michigan University they bolt, and in some of the western "educational institutions" they skate Mr. Black is unable to find derivations for these words. Slope is to be found in Hotten's Slang Dictionary, meaning "to decamp, run off," and is called an Americanism. Cut is found in the same place, meaning "to stop, cease to do anything...
...ambitious Seniors went to Lake Whitney to skate; for a while they succeeded bravely; but, skating too near the water's edge, they tumbled in. A small boy and his sister happening that way rescued them. All the parties are doing as well as could be expected...
...students, and be one of the family'; but I do think she might treat these fellows as kindly as, for instance, you'd like to have your family treated if you should move into a strange place. Now when that polite young man brought my daughter's skate back to her, I 'd like to have had the girls a little more friendly to him. It would have been pleasanter for him, and I think they 'd have enjoyed...